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Editor’s note: Amos is a churchmouse, who types by hopping on the computer keyboard, but he can’t operate the capital shift, and he shuns punctuation marks – except hyphens and dashes. a tale of two frogs boss pastor leroy beetle was a bit discouraged the other day he told me that he dreaded the effects of summer and its warm care-free days in the church pew underworld you mean about folks taking time off for the weekends i asked no not just that he said everybody needs some time away and off to themselves even mice and littl...
link Judy Brandon Columnist Religion columnist Over the years Mother has told me many stories of her childhood. Now even more, I cherish all those stories she told me. First, those stories remind me of my sweet Mother. Second, Mother always had a spiritual truth to demonstrate when she told one of her stories. At times I have told someone that “I will pray for you” and honestly, I sometimes use those words loosely. Mother once told me a true story that validates why we should...
Staff reporter [email protected] Ken McDonald, director for music ministries at First United Methodist Church, admits he’s been celebrating Christmas for the past two months. McDonald said he’s spent his summer preparing musical selections for the church’s choirs to perform this fall, as well as during two December Christmas programs. “We’re beginning a new season that roughly follows the school calendar,” McDonald said, adding that children and adult choirs take a break for the summer months and resume rehearsals...
Projects Editor [email protected] While underground water supplies may be taking a precipitous plunge in nearby Parmer County, it doesn’t necessarily translate into a similar drop in eastern New Mexico’s slice of the aquifer, according to studies by New Mexico’s State Engineer. Aquifer levels are dropping across Curry and Roosevelt counties, according to officials, just not at the alarming rate a recent Texas Tech University study determined water supplies were being decimated in West Texas. The Texas study found water l...
link Staff photo: Vanessa Kahin Reese Lansford, 3, poses with her stick horse after the Little Buckaroo Rodeo Friday at the Curry County Fair. Staff writer [email protected] On Wednesday, it was dairy heifers; on Thursday, it was stick horses for 6-year-old Raegan Lansford of Clovis. Lansford, accompanied by three generations of her family, participated in the Little Buckaroo Rodeo at the Curry County Fair on Thursday afternoon. An event for little ones from toddlers to...
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Staff report The Clovis/Curry County Chamber of Commerce is hosting the New Mexico Tourism Commission’s quarterly meeting. The meeting starts at 9 a.m. today in the Business Enterprise Center, 105 E. Grand, and is open to the public. Chamber Executive Director Ernie Kos is the gust speaker and plans to talk about Clovis tourism, including the annual Clovis Music Festival set for the first weekend in September. The commission’s Cabinet Secretary Monique Jacobson will also off reports in three key areas: • Strategic plan revie...
link Staff photos: Joshua Lucero Michael Baca, 28, left, batters Oreos while Debbie Ulibarri prepares Snicker bars to be deep-fried in the Shoogs food trailer Thursday afternoon at the Curry County Fair. Ulibarri said a portion of the Shoogs trailer’s profits will be donated to repair cleft lips through Operation Smile. STAFF WRITER [email protected] It’s that time of year and the Curry County Fair is in full swing with vendors and rides to entertain all ages. The fai...
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Sports writer [email protected] Clovis High girls soccer team has posted winning records each of the last two seasons, but failed to notch a District 4-5A win in that time. link Staff photo: Tony Bullocks Clovis High senior Serena Garcia tries to control the ball during a drill at Lady Wildcats soccer practice on Thursday at Leon Williams Stadium. The Lady Cats open their season on Tuesday at Lovington. Fourth-year coach Traci Sievers is optimistic the Lady Wildcats, who...
Staff writer [email protected] Geovanny Lujan, a 21-year-old senior at Eastern New Mexico University from Albuquerque, came to ENMU’s Dawg Days nervous and unprepared his freshman year. Those are exactly the kind of feelings he and others are hoping to deter with the weekend’s Dawg Days celebration. Lujan was the first person in his family to go to college so he had no idea what to expect, he said. His Dawg Days experience was welcoming to him and that is why he decided to be a social media coordinator for Dawg Days thi...
Staff writer [email protected] Karra Day shouldn’t really be here. That’s not to say the 5-foot-10 setter doesn’t belong on the court at Eastern New Mexico University, where she led the Zias with 494 assists last year. Rather, the native of Escondido, California, wasn’t the target in 2010 when New Mexico Military Institute coach Shelby Forchtner came to scout the Cougars. It was twin sister Kelli Day, but the plans changed when Kelli didn’t make the game and Karra pla...
Staff writer [email protected] Karra Day shouldn’t really be here. That’s not to say the 5-foot-10 setter doesn’t belong on the court at Eastern New Mexico University, where she led the Zias with 494 assists last year. Rather, the native of Escondido, California, wasn’t the target in 2010 when New Mexico Military Institute coach Shelby Forchtner came to scout the Cougars. It was twin sister Kelli Day, but the plans changed when Kelli didn’t make the game and Karra pla...
Staff photo: Kevin Wilson ENMU assistant coach Ashley Rhoades hits from a platform as sophomores Lauren Frye, left, and Kaetlyn Weatherford set up their blocks....
Staff photo: Kevin Wilson Junior Stevie-Rae Baca plays a ball during the Zias’ Thursday practice....
Staff photo: Kevin Wilson ENMU coach Sia Poyer hits a ball to freshman Andrea Aguilar of Clovis....
Staff photo: Kevin Wilson Karra Day, who led the Zias in assists last season, sets a ball during Thursday afternoon practice at Greyhound Arena. The Zias open the season Sept. 5 at the Lady Buff Classic at West Texas A&M....
Kevin Wilson: Staff photo ENMU assistant coach Ashley Rhoades hits from a platform as sophomores Lauren Frye, left, and Kaetlyn Weatherford set up their blocks....
KEVIN WILSON: Staff photo Junior Stevie-Rae Baca plays a ball during the Zias’ Thursday practice....
KEVIN WILSON: Staff photo ENMU coach Sia Poyer hits a ball to freshman Andrea Aguilar of Clovis....
KEVIN WILSON: Staff photo Karra Day, who led the Zias in assists last season, sets a ball during Thursday afternoon practice at Greyhound Arena. The Zias open the season Sept. 5 at the Lady Buff Classic at West Texas A&M....
link Audra Brown Local columnist Many hours and days and nights have I spent on a big, red machine. There's even a song about it. It gets quite a bit right. A combine isn't fast. Roading it with the header off, you can get close to 15, but rear-wheel steering at that speed makes things get a little exciting sometimes. Ten is more stable, but when the header is on, and its cutting time, 5 is hoofin' it. Backing up traffic is amusing. Pull out onto the Bethel Highway with the...
Portales police, sheriff, and fire call logs: Caller reported: Wednesday • 12:10 a.m.: Suspicious circumstances, location unknown. • 12:24 a.m.: Suspicious circumstances, location unknown. • 12:30 a.m.: Burglary, 800 block of South Avenue B. • 7:17 a.m.: Welfare check, 1700 block of North Boston Street. • 7:21 a.m.: Neighbor problem, 500 block of South Roosevelt Road U. • 8:33 a.m.: Prisoner transport, 1700 block of North Boston Street. • 8:41 a.m.: Prisoner transport, 42400 block of U.S. 70. • 9:04 a.m.: Warrant service...
link Courtesy photo New Mexican Blain Dern, 77, rests at a vineyard about half way through his 522-mile solo pilgrimage through Spain. Religion columnist Visitors to Ruidoso are familiar with the racetrack, the golf courses, the gambling halls. While enjoying the cool mountain breezes, they might also have dined at Log Cabin, the town’s popular breakfast headquarters. Blain Dern, who will be 78 in January, started the restaurant in 1989 and sold it to daughter Michele 10 y...